And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.